Trump's statements were not exaggerated...they were frequently outright lies and/or gratuitous, intentional insults.

Trump is not "not that bad". If that's the best that you can say about a man, then he is indeed "bad". The only question is "how bad". He is still a bad man and a poor choice.

Whether raw power or international law is dominant is irrelevant. Raw power ie, bullying on a grand scale, is not preferable to the absence of bullying. International law won't simply disappear because someone says that this is so... it might be ignored by some and for a while, but this was always so.

This situation is actually normal. Nothing much has changed, except that a know-nothing, loudmouth, arrogant, sexist, racist, stupid man will soon become President of USA. He will learn on the job some of the limitations to his fantastical vision of his own omnipotence. Where he does not learn, he will fail.

We, on the sidelines will also learn much... but will we understand?

You've got this all wrong!

Trump doesn't have any personal power, just assigned power placed in his hands by the voters!

He is not an elected dictator like Putin and unlike Putin, if he oversteps his assigned authority, he can be, like an impeached (you're fired) Nixon forced to resign!

That said, Trump and the republicans who back(ed) him will live or die politically, based on delivered outcomes! Not even the dumbest republican, will allow the Constitution to be altered so as to entrench Trump, who will live or die with them politically, on delivered results!

One of which cannot be ripping affordable health insurance from around 20 million voters!

Simply put, the Republicans can look forward to a very long time in the political wilderness if Trump fails to deliver on "Great" expectations!

And if that occurs and he wants to hold onto seductive power? What's left? Plunging the world into an unwinnable by anyone, war?

You're clearly not as bright as you think you are? Or is think a misnomer? A thinking man would have replaced the word power, with duty and or, servitude!
Alan B.

you can tell that Trump has much going for him by the people he upsets. Overpaid actress's who are happy to applaud rapist, Israel haters and the green religion are all highly threatened.

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is anything but affordable.
- That's what they do in America; name things in the way they should be perceived but now how they are.
Many examples of this in legislature.

"As a small business that employs about 20 people, the company and our employees are paying twice what they paid for health insurance just two years ago, and are getting less for it," says Brad Chandler, CEO of Virginia-based home buying company Express Homebuyers, in a blog post Manta wrote about their poll results. "We are hopeful that the Trump administration can find a way to lower health insurance premiums while maintaining or increasing coverage benefits."

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/17/small-business-owners-optimistic-about-trump-and-repeal-and-replace.html

I wonder whether Armchair Critic, having asked the question, has something in mind, or whether, like Trump, he is long on opinion and short on answers.

Surely, since USA has long been recognised as the centre of profit-driven privately owned health care industry and simultaneously the highest cost western nation for health services, his answer will include introducing competition into a broken marketplace, or perhaps government overview.

These sound like essential components of the Affordable Care Act, about which I know very little.

So, come on, AC, tell us what precisely you have in mind. We Australians might learn a lot from America's experience.

JohnBennetts, Alan B. take heed from Armchair the sage!

Trump's negotiating flair, his ability to wield power, amount to gifts any doubting Thomases would give their right n-ts for. Sorry ladies.

Trump's has built a great career making comments full of shock and awe, instilling fear followed by alarm. Putin and some of the more extreme Chinese colonels# do it all the time - with success and respect.

Trump's business brinkmanship* will prove effective in the military arena, a nuclear Iran vs Israel? North Korean backdown or the little red button?

Mark my words. An exciting ride awaits.

# see retired Chinese PLA colonel, Yue Gang's comments on the East China and South China Seas http://www.news.com.au/world/belligerent-beijing-combat-air-patrols-over-south-china-sea-escorted-fishing-fleet-in-the-east-china-sea/news-story/1752ce3d63cc5cb8d5d4176dfa48510e

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship

Pete